Any construction project is an incredible assembly of moving parts, and if you’ve ever worked on one, you know not everything goes to plan. You hopefully know that the key to a successful project isn’t just keeping to plan; it’s also about being nimble enough to change the plan and absorb the unexpected. At SITECH Rocky Mountain, we have plenty of experience with the beautiful chaos responsible for homes and commercial buildings, and we are dedicated to making life easier for everyone involved. Over the years, we’ve noticed some pain points that come up consistently on work sites and cause unnecessary delays. In today’s blog, we want to share some of these issues and show how our construction technology can resolve them.
Why Construction Delays Keep Happening to You
Updating the schedule every month isn’t always effective.
A bunch of things happens on construction sites every day. String 20 of those days together before you get an update, and you can be completely blindsided. You also diminish your reaction time, which can create a dreaded snowball of delays and frustrations. Trimble construction software can help you keep a finger on the pulse of all your projects and empower you to steer them around traps that capture construction teams that aren’t equipped as well.
There are lots of people doing lots of tasks.
There’s no way around it: construction involves a mountain of work that all needs to be done by people who know what they’re doing. However, it’s common for the management side of the project to have constrained resources, which leads to individuals having to wear way too many hats. As a result, it’s hard for anyone to sit down, take a breath, and evaluate schedules, performance, and incoming requirements. However, a lot of this can be busy work, and our Trimble construction technology can bear a large part of the burden, freeing your team up to run projects more smoothly.
Project managers get separated from the scheduling process.
Project managers are in charge of making a schedule happen. However, if they have no say in how the schedule is constructed, they can find themselves in impossible situations. Instead, the schedule gets dictated by internal forces who don’t fully understand the unique needs of each project. The tension and stress created in this situation can lead to accidents, delays, and other nasty surprises. The team much be coherent, and our technology can provide the essential transparency required to keep everyone on the same page. Make paper schedules a thing of the past!
Daily reports fall by the wayside.
Major projects take a lot out of everyone working on them, and construction is no exception. If daily reports aren’t expected and reinforced, they can slip through the tracks as exhausted project managers try to get everything else done. This is especially common when managers feel that their input isn’t evaluated anyway. By emphasizing the importance of a daily report and quickly following through on what your managers report, you can start to get ahead of the ball, addressing issues before they derail anything and empowering your managers to streamline their work sites.
Schedules become way too complex.
As we said, construction projects can bring hundreds of people together over the span of just a few days. Some projects have upwards of 20,000 activities spread over 20 unique schedules. Nobody can keep track of that, and frustrated confusion is always the result. Instead of letting that happen, turn to Trimble technology for a streamlined, transparent schedule model that can keep everyone on track.
Reduce Delays with Trimble Construction Software from SITECH
You don’t have to just live with the headaches that consistently accompany construction. Instead, contact SITECH Rocky Mountain to learn how our technology can improve your unique situation.